Alexander Kozin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 216547 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alexander Kozin |
| PRENOMES | Alexander |
| SOBRENOME | Kozin |
| ASSINATURA | KOZIN A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Freie Universität Berlin |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Child Victim in Andrey Tarkovsky’s Ivan's Childhood
In this article I examine Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1962 film Ivan’s Childhood. The film tells a story about a twelve-year old Russian boy, whose family was killed by the Germans at the onset of WWII. Orphaned and dispossessed, Ivan began to scout for the Soviet troops. Eventually, he was captured, tortured and executed by the Gestapo. Using a wide gamut of mythopoetic “articulations,” in this film, Tarkovsky shows how Ivan’s victimization affected him …
The Permanent Truth of Hedonist Moralities”
Levinas maintains that there is a lasting significance to hedonism if we consider the important role of pleasures for our embodied existence. In this essay, we go back to Plato to explore the nature of pleasure, different kinds of pleasures, and their contribution to the good life. The good life is a considerate mixture of pleasures which requires knowing, understanding and remembering. Pleasures take us to the most basic level of existence which…
Soobshchenie i Zabytie [Messaging and Forgetting]
Soobshchenie i Zabytie [Messaging and Forgetting]." Russian Journal of Communication, 11(2), pp. 184–185
Between Platonic Love and Internet Pornography
The article sets out to show how an holistic approach in matters of sexuality is always more helpful than one-sided approaches. On the issue of internet pornography, the authors suggest that the recent anti-masturbation online movement ‘no fapping’ is based on wrong conclusions from insufficient evidence. We suggest that a holistic approach is called for, with emphasis on the embodied human. Abstinence or what is understood by ‘Platonic love’ is …
Susanna and the Elders”
This paper is located at the juncture of text and image, law and justice, religion and rationality, while its main subject is set to be visual expressions of the law-relevant emotion of shame. Specifically, I suggest that the late Renaissance academic depictions of “Susanna and the Elders,” based on The Holy Bible , “Daniel 13,” namely Rubens (1607), van Dyck (1621–1622), and Rembrandt (1647), disclose the conditions under which the authentic mea…
The metaphysics of encountering radical difference
Toward a comparative study of the courtroom space
In this short study, we would like to investigate the spatial layout of the courtroom in three national contexts: German, US-American, and Russian. The thesis that stands behind this project claims
The law of compatriot”
In this paper, I explore the meaning of the Russian Federal Law of Compatriot (1999/2010). I focus on two themes: (a) the social preconditions for the Law; (b) the Law itself; and (c) the Law’s social and cultural effects. My main objective is to show the role of the law in constructing the new Russian identity that is no longer insular and domineering, but in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, has emerged to be singular, yet defined o…
Flirtation
Idealizing the life-world in the age of discovery
This article discusses “mathematization of the world” as it was elaborated by Edmund Husserl who focuses on the figure of Galileo and his rediscovery of the heliocentric system in the seventeenth century. The author argues that the latter event became definitional not only for the formation of ideal objectivity but for a wide spectrum of relations between natural sciences and the life-world. Umberto Eco provides a literary exemplar of this thesis…
Phenomenology of the Alien
The Mirror of Laughter
Re-making the Teton identity by celebrating ‘Lewis and Clark’
This article examines an attempt to re-make the Teton identity at the site of the bicentennial celebrations of the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804–1806. The pageant took place in Fort Pierre, South Dakota, in September 2004 at the initiative of the Lakota Heritage Society. The author observed and recorded the performance as a part of his ethnographic fieldwork. The performance was based on two competing narratives: an excerpt from the Lewis an…
Native American Identity and the Limits of Cultural Defence
Krokodil” in Transition
This article focuses on the cultural meaning of the bureaucrat cartoon, which is a thematic subgenre of the ‘social ill’ cartoon published in the Soviet satire magazine “Krokodil” (1924–1992). The study is previewed by Vladimir Propp’s theory of comism and laughter. With the help of that theory the article shows the origin of the comical in cartoon as well as cartoon’s relation to anekdot. The analysis of the bureaucrat cartoon in the second part…
Unsettled facts
In this article I conduct an examination of discursive identity of a legal ‘object’ in the course of its treatment by various figures in the legal process. The need for this examination arises from a widespread concern about the effects of creating ‘records’, i.e., transforming spoken discourse by way of documentation into ‘evidence’. After a brief review of the current discussion about this phenomenon, I argue that the identity of textualized ev…
Translation and semiotic phenomenology
In this article I draw attention to semiotic phenomenology as a method to advance translation studies. I recover this method first in the works of Ferdinand de Saussure and Edmund Husserl and then present it in two theories of translation: by linguist Roman Jakobson and by philosopher Jacques Derrida. These theories are examined to assert that Jakobson and Derrida share the semiotic phenomenological focus and thus should be considered co-contribu…
The appearing memory
In this article I examine the concept `crystal-image,' as developed by Gilles Deleuze in the two volumes of Cinema (1986—89). In these texts, Deleuze examines the ways in which phenomenality of time discloses itself through the semiotic dimension of cinema. Subsequently, Deleuze identifies three distinctly different senses of cinematographic time: (1) time as the movement of image; (2) the movement of time-image; and (3) the appearance of time it…
Scrapbooking the criminal defence file
This article moves away from a common understanding of a criminal defence file as a container for relevant documentation and addresses it as a cultural object which organizes and performs various written documents towards making a case. In my examination I employ rhetorical ethnography of communication. Suggested by Thomas Farrell and Tamar Katriel, the method was originally applied to the analysis of the scrapbooks presented as the cultural text…
On Positionality and Its Comparability in the Legal Context
This essay examines comparability of criminal defense casework in three different legal contexts on the basis of the phenomenological concept "positionality." Originally introduced by Helmuth Plessner for the study of how the body relates to its environment, positionality has evolved into a sociological resource called on to explain various political, ideological, and ethical phenomena. In this essay, positionality is employed to compare and cont…
A standoff with history
In the United States, the Lewis and Clark Expedition is legendary. Launched in 1804, it marked the will of the emerging state to expand and grow. In 2004 the grateful country commemorated this remarkable occasion by launching the bicentennial celebrations for the Corps of Discovery. There was much to remember the explorers by: their brave exploits in the unknown territory, their thorough descriptions of geography and wildlife, but also their peac…
How Courts Know
To grasp criminal courts as truth spots, one needs to go beyond their symbolic applications to consider their interactional and epistemic implications. In this study, the authors compare the English Crown Court, German District Court, and U.S. State Court as “places on display” and as “places denied.” These perspectives comment on the courts in light of their different interaction orders and their different positions in knowledge processes. For t…
Xenology as phenomenological semiotics
In this article I examine the science of the alien, or xenology for its contribution to semiotics. As a subfield of phenomenology, xenology emerged in the Husserlian theory of intersubjectivity when, in his late period, Husserl performed a transition from the other as an analogue of the self to the alien as a non-analogical structure. The transition came with singling out four alien modalities — children, animals, foreigners, and the insane — as …
Comical hypothetical
This study makes a case for the conversational phenomenon the authors have named the comical hypothetical ( CH). The CH becomes discursively co-created during ongoing conversation when one or more speakers depart from the normal turn-taking system and engage in the interactional creation of an imaginary world. Data stem from ethnographic observations as well as from spontaneous recordings of social situations in three different locations. Out of …
Iconic wonder
How Courts Know
To grasp criminal courts as truth spots, one needs to go beyond their symbolic applications to consider their interactional and epistemic implications. In this study, the authors compare the English Crown Court, German District Court, and U.S. State Court as “places on display” and as “places denied.” These perspectives comment on the courts in light of their different interaction orders and their different positions in knowledge processes. For t…
Comical hypothetical
This study makes a case for the conversational phenomenon the authors have named the comical hypothetical ( CH). The CH becomes discursively co-created during ongoing conversation when one or more speakers depart from the normal turn-taking system and engage in the interactional creation of an imaginary world. Data stem from ethnographic observations as well as from spontaneous recordings of social situations in three different locations. Out of …
The Permanent Truth of Hedonist Moralities”
Levinas maintains that there is a lasting significance to hedonism if we consider the important role of pleasures for our embodied existence. In this essay, we go back to Plato to explore the nature of pleasure, different kinds of pleasures, and their contribution to the good life. The good life is a considerate mixture of pleasures which requires knowing, understanding and remembering. Pleasures take us to the most basic level of existence which…
Flirtation
Krokodil” in Transition
This article focuses on the cultural meaning of the bureaucrat cartoon, which is a thematic subgenre of the ‘social ill’ cartoon published in the Soviet satire magazine “Krokodil” (1924–1992). The study is previewed by Vladimir Propp’s theory of comism and laughter. With the help of that theory the article shows the origin of the comical in cartoon as well as cartoon’s relation to anekdot. The analysis of the bureaucrat cartoon in the second part…
Soobshchenie i Zabytie [Messaging and Forgetting]
Soobshchenie i Zabytie [Messaging and Forgetting]." Russian Journal of Communication, 11(2), pp. 184–185
Between Platonic Love and Internet Pornography
The article sets out to show how an holistic approach in matters of sexuality is always more helpful than one-sided approaches. On the issue of internet pornography, the authors suggest that the recent anti-masturbation online movement ‘no fapping’ is based on wrong conclusions from insufficient evidence. We suggest that a holistic approach is called for, with emphasis on the embodied human. Abstinence or what is understood by ‘Platonic love’ is …
Iconic wonder
The sign of the Other
The sign of the Other
Crossing over with the Angel
This essay is an analytical extension of Roland Barthes’ structural analysis of an excerpt from the Old Testament (Genesis 32: 22–32), known as “The Struggle with the Angel”. It thus continues the search for “the third meaning” of this enigmatic passage. In this essay, “The Struggle with the Angel” is undertaken in the phenomenological (xenological) register which situates it in the liminal sphere at the crossing of disclosure and concealment. Su…
The Body Artist. An Experience of the Sur-Real in the Context of the Embodied and Aesthetic Abnormality
In this essay I explore a possibility of experiential synthesis of an abnormal body of a Contergan person with an aesthetic image of the visual body. For a method, the essay uses phenomenology; I therefore lean in on the studies of embodiment conducted by Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In turn, Max Ernst introduces an aesthetic modality of the artistic body. A personal narrative about meeting sur-real bodies serves as a frame for theor…
Iconic wonder
Unsettled facts
In this article I conduct an examination of discursive identity of a legal ‘object’ in the course of its treatment by various figures in the legal process. The need for this examination arises from a widespread concern about the effects of creating ‘records’, i.e., transforming spoken discourse by way of documentation into ‘evidence’. After a brief review of the current discussion about this phenomenon, I argue that the identity of textualized ev…
Translation and semiotic phenomenology
In this article I draw attention to semiotic phenomenology as a method to advance translation studies. I recover this method first in the works of Ferdinand de Saussure and Edmund Husserl and then present it in two theories of translation: by linguist Roman Jakobson and by philosopher Jacques Derrida. These theories are examined to assert that Jakobson and Derrida share the semiotic phenomenological focus and thus should be considered co-contribu…
The appearing memory
In this article I examine the concept `crystal-image,' as developed by Gilles Deleuze in the two volumes of Cinema (1986—89). In these texts, Deleuze examines the ways in which phenomenality of time discloses itself through the semiotic dimension of cinema. Subsequently, Deleuze identifies three distinctly different senses of cinematographic time: (1) time as the movement of image; (2) the movement of time-image; and (3) the appearance of time it…
Scrapbooking the criminal defence file
This article moves away from a common understanding of a criminal defence file as a container for relevant documentation and addresses it as a cultural object which organizes and performs various written documents towards making a case. In my examination I employ rhetorical ethnography of communication. Suggested by Thomas Farrell and Tamar Katriel, the method was originally applied to the analysis of the scrapbooks presented as the cultural text…
On Positionality and Its Comparability in the Legal Context
This essay examines comparability of criminal defense casework in three different legal contexts on the basis of the phenomenological concept "positionality." Originally introduced by Helmuth Plessner for the study of how the body relates to its environment, positionality has evolved into a sociological resource called on to explain various political, ideological, and ethical phenomena. In this essay, positionality is employed to compare and cont…
A standoff with history
In the United States, the Lewis and Clark Expedition is legendary. Launched in 1804, it marked the will of the emerging state to expand and grow. In 2004 the grateful country commemorated this remarkable occasion by launching the bicentennial celebrations for the Corps of Discovery. There was much to remember the explorers by: their brave exploits in the unknown territory, their thorough descriptions of geography and wildlife, but also their peac…
How Courts Know
To grasp criminal courts as truth spots, one needs to go beyond their symbolic applications to consider their interactional and epistemic implications. In this study, the authors compare the English Crown Court, German District Court, and U.S. State Court as “places on display” and as “places denied.” These perspectives comment on the courts in light of their different interaction orders and their different positions in knowledge processes. For t…
Xenology as phenomenological semiotics
In this article I examine the science of the alien, or xenology for its contribution to semiotics. As a subfield of phenomenology, xenology emerged in the Husserlian theory of intersubjectivity when, in his late period, Husserl performed a transition from the other as an analogue of the self to the alien as a non-analogical structure. The transition came with singling out four alien modalities — children, animals, foreigners, and the insane — as …
Comical hypothetical
This study makes a case for the conversational phenomenon the authors have named the comical hypothetical ( CH). The CH becomes discursively co-created during ongoing conversation when one or more speakers depart from the normal turn-taking system and engage in the interactional creation of an imaginary world. Data stem from ethnographic observations as well as from spontaneous recordings of social situations in three different locations. Out of …
Krokodil” in Transition
This article focuses on the cultural meaning of the bureaucrat cartoon, which is a thematic subgenre of the ‘social ill’ cartoon published in the Soviet satire magazine “Krokodil” (1924–1992). The study is previewed by Vladimir Propp’s theory of comism and laughter. With the help of that theory the article shows the origin of the comical in cartoon as well as cartoon’s relation to anekdot. The analysis of the bureaucrat cartoon in the second part…
Re-making the Teton identity by celebrating ‘Lewis and Clark’
This article examines an attempt to re-make the Teton identity at the site of the bicentennial celebrations of the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804–1806. The pageant took place in Fort Pierre, South Dakota, in September 2004 at the initiative of the Lakota Heritage Society. The author observed and recorded the performance as a part of his ethnographic fieldwork. The performance was based on two competing narratives: an excerpt from the Lewis an…
Native American Identity and the Limits of Cultural Defence
Phenomenology of the Alien
The Mirror of Laughter
Idealizing the life-world in the age of discovery
This article discusses “mathematization of the world” as it was elaborated by Edmund Husserl who focuses on the figure of Galileo and his rediscovery of the heliocentric system in the seventeenth century. The author argues that the latter event became definitional not only for the formation of ideal objectivity but for a wide spectrum of relations between natural sciences and the life-world. Umberto Eco provides a literary exemplar of this thesis…
The metaphysics of encountering radical difference
Toward a comparative study of the courtroom space
In this short study, we would like to investigate the spatial layout of the courtroom in three national contexts: German, US-American, and Russian. The thesis that stands behind this project claims
The law of compatriot”
In this paper, I explore the meaning of the Russian Federal Law of Compatriot (1999/2010). I focus on two themes: (a) the social preconditions for the Law; (b) the Law itself; and (c) the Law’s social and cultural effects. My main objective is to show the role of the law in constructing the new Russian identity that is no longer insular and domineering, but in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, has emerged to be singular, yet defined o…
Flirtation
Between Platonic Love and Internet Pornography
The article sets out to show how an holistic approach in matters of sexuality is always more helpful than one-sided approaches. On the issue of internet pornography, the authors suggest that the recent anti-masturbation online movement ‘no fapping’ is based on wrong conclusions from insufficient evidence. We suggest that a holistic approach is called for, with emphasis on the embodied human. Abstinence or what is understood by ‘Platonic love’ is …
Susanna and the Elders”
This paper is located at the juncture of text and image, law and justice, religion and rationality, while its main subject is set to be visual expressions of the law-relevant emotion of shame. Specifically, I suggest that the late Renaissance academic depictions of “Susanna and the Elders,” based on The Holy Bible , “Daniel 13,” namely Rubens (1607), van Dyck (1621–1622), and Rembrandt (1647), disclose the conditions under which the authentic mea…
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